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00:00Yes, so we're going to go into the care home once a week and try and gather as much information
00:04about what the ladies and gentlemen there would like to grow and hopefully that will
00:09spark memories of their own gardens, what they grew at home and we can try and recreate some
00:15of that at the care home and I think that would be really nice for them to see those
00:19flowers growing around them. We've got some funding from the National Lottery Community
00:25Grant to grow some flowers at the care home so that we can bring them in and share them among
00:32the people in the care home but we also are then able to replace some of the imported flowers with
00:38British grown flowers which have a much lower carbon footprint than the ones that you can buy
00:45in the supermarkets but that also increases the number of pollinators that are able to feed off
00:49the flowers and in turn also allows us to bring those flowers into the care home and the ladies
00:57there can arrange them which is an enriching task for them in the week. We've got a small area at
01:03the care home where we will be turning it from grass into cut flower beds and then we've got a
01:08field in Chemice where we'll be growing a much larger scale dried flowers and then we'll also
01:15be selling them in Tumhorai Cymru shops and also further afield in some of the other independent
01:22businesses around so if anyone's interested in stocking those then please let us know.
01:26It's called the Dovey Bunch. We hope that the residents will be able to come out and harvest
01:31but I think the majority of it will be arranging the flowers and as much as they can to come out
01:37and look at them and pick them if they're able and also to sow them so we find that sweet peas
01:44are quite good because they're easy to pick up. Most of the funding is going towards the
01:48growing of the flowers there's a small amount also to plow and sow a crop of flax and then in
01:55autumn we'll be looking for funding to develop the flax side so we'll be processing it and turning it
02:01into a product primarily to try and replace some imported string that we use in the floristry
02:06because we use an awful lot of string and you can it's a fairly simple process to make a string
02:12from flax and so part of the funding is to look at the history of the growing of flax around here
02:19in around the Dovey Valley and trying to work out what it was actually grown for because we know it
02:24was grown here probably small scale possibly exported but certainly grown locally for a
02:31product so we're looking for anyone who might know how it was grown what the product was whether
02:36they worked with it to make linen anything to do with the history and Ellen Crowley is heading up
02:42that part of the project.